On Custom House Quay sits one of the city’s newest attractions: the EPIC Irish Emigration Museum, winner of Europe’s Leading Tourist Attraction by the World Travel Awards for the past three years in a row.
Designed by the same award-winning team as Belfast’s Titanic Museum, it tells the stories of 10 million or so people who have departed from Ireland over the centuries, for reasons ranging from famine to economic necessity to conflict to religious persecution.
They went to Britain, the United States, Australia and beyond, building railroads and farming frontier territory.
Tearful goodbyes and longed-for returns have become part of the national identity, the arrivals area at its airports are filled with billboards aimed at homesick expats, hungry for Brennan’s bread and Tayto crisps. (CNN)
My grandmother and grandfather were 2 of the 10 million expats who left for a better life in the U.S.
My grandmother, as a child was sent to America to care for sick relatives.
My grandfather was a fireman in County Cork who rose to Battalion Chief of the Chicago fire department.
In many ways they have all contributed to cultures around the world.
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